In <[🔎] 886fa7aa0905220106n791648e1v6b79acecc06b34c9@mail.gmail.com>, Jason
Filippou wrote:
>Being new to Debian and running Squeeze I'm curious as to what the "Score
> is x" line's supposed to mean when examining solutions to solve package
> dependences through aptitude.
Aptitude assigns each possible resolution a score. A resolution's score is
the sum of the scores of all actions in the resolution. Each possible
action has a fixed, integral score. The defaults for these scores and the
configuration option to alter them are documented
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html
and in the package(s) aptitude-doc-$lang.
Those documents contain all the apt.conf settings that will affect aptitude,
the ones that affect action score are all of the form:
Aptitude::ProblemResolver::${Action}Score.
When presenting the user with a solution, aptitude will show the one with
the highest score that the resolver has found so far. Solutions that are
found to have a score that is too low will be immediately rejected.
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